Meetings:

Wednesdays, 4:00-4:50, Baldwin 649

Schedule:

	Date		Title and References		Speaker
	January 3		What is creativity? How to improve creative ability.		John Franco
			Slides: ppt  odp  pdf		UC Faculty
			On Creativity, David Bohm, ISBN:0-415336-40-6, 2004
			Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas,          John L. Adams, ISBN:0-738205-37-0, 2001
			How to be More Creative, David Edwards, ISBN:0-933264-00-3, 1979
			Creativity Puzzles
			More Creativity Puzzles
			Enchanted Mind Site
	January 10		Experiences of a Technology Entreprenuer		Bill Nicholson, CEO
			Slides: ppt		Nicholson Computer Consultants
	January 17		Achieving Optimal Assignments for Comparison Based, In-Place Sorting		Spencer Morgan
			Slides: ppt		MS Student
	January 24		Equivalence Checking: Software checking hardware correctness		Sean Weaver
			Slides: ppt		U.S. Dept. of Defense
	January 31		Problems in Social Networking: Algorithmic Perspectives		Fred Annexstein
					U.C. Faculty
	February 7		Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Engineering Problem Solving		Robert Sexton
					Kudra Technical Services
	February 14		Modeling and Analysis of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks		Qing-An Zeng
					U.C. Faculty
	February 21		Wireless Network Security		Fnu Nidhi
					MS Student
	February 28		Slope one predictors for online rating-based collaborative filtering		Scott Reynolds
			Paper: pdf		MS Student
	March 7		TBA		Roland Mai
					MS Student